After pouring record rains on Texas, Tropical Storm Harvey made a second landfall on Wednesday to strike Louisiana, a state that still bears deep scars from 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. The second hit comes five days after the monster storm slammed onshore as a Category Four hurricane, pummelling the US Gulf coast with torrential rains that turned neighbourhoods into lakes in America’s fourth largest city, Houston. Harvey made its second landfall […]

Greater Manchester has been on flood alert after torrential rain throughout the night. Rivers across the region burst their banks with many roads closed. Homes were evacuated and thousands of people have been left without power. KEY EVENTS SO FAR 2 MINS AGOFlood warnings withdrawn 1 HOUR AGO10 flood warnings lifted 2 HOURS AGOOver 7,000 properties still without power in Greater Manches… 2 HOURS AGO5,000 homes still without power 2 […]

At least three people have been killed and more than a 100,000 forced to flee their homes as floods triggered by torrential rain hit western Canada. Officials have ordered the evacuation of the centre of Calgary, Alberta, after both rivers that flow through it, the Bow and Elbow, overflowed. The floods have washed away roads and bridges, cut-off electricity and submerged hundreds of homes. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper toured […]